Rough Ride (Chaos, #4.5)

by Kristen Ashley

[Eve1972]

Please Note: I am going to put a stop to the morality police comments right now. Don't come on my review and give me a lecture when it is VERY clear I was joking about a FICTIONAL character. No woman was actually beaten, it is FICTION. My comments pertained to a FICTIONAL character. Save your outrage for the REAL women and children that are abused daily. Better yet, instead of going around and posting outrage on other peoples reviews volunteer that time at a women's shelter. No one with a lick of SENSE or who KNOWS me believes I was saying it is A-OK for a woman to be beaten up on in REAL LIFE. Geez Louise people watch out for nosebleeds on those high horses you sit on.

So I went into this one riding a wave of hopefulness after reading THE HOOKUP by this author, and it didn't suck. I originally wasn't planning on reading it because let us be honest here Rosalie should have remained as a side character. She didn't need her own book (even a novella), and she most certainly didn't need to end up with a CHAOS brother. I mean who wants to sit across from their ex at every meeting and get together CHAOS has until the end of their natural born life??!! Certainly not me! I highly doubt ANYONE would.



I didn't hate it. It was just OK. I didn't particularly like Rosalie (surprise) she wasn't the brightest of bulbs and a bit of a backstabbing cheating whore. I guess I was supposed to feel for her as she was trying to get her man to not turn to the "dark side" but the entire time she was basically emotionally cheating with Snapper. She also kind of deserved a beatdown for ratting out her "mans" club. -- just kidding. Kind of... (lol). I mean COME ON, she actually thought she was going to change the minds of an entire club? Anyone with half a brain would have just broken up with the guy and moved on. Moving on...I was thankful at least that Tab and Shy aren't mentioned or seen much. That said, the whole Tab scene at the beginning and the bestie friends with Tab and Shy at the end was stupid, and unrealistic, and unnecessary (IMO).

It was also a pretty short book. Especially for KA because even her novellas tend to be longish. The romance was pretty quick and not overly developed. It was also really light in the sex department. Honestly, this felt more like a setup book for the next CHAOS full length one (Hound's I think) with a half-ass romance thrown in. Other than Hap and Lanie's book the entire CHAOS series hasn't been great for me. But like I said, I didn't hate this one. So we'll chalk that up to a win (lol).



SIDE NOTE: I wish this author would put a little effort into learning some medical facts. Rosalie had NINE broken ribs, but she was walking around like she was taking a stroll through the fucking tulips two days later??. I'm not even a f-cking DR, and I KNOW that she wouldn't even be able to BREATH without extreme pain with NINE broken ribs, let alone walk around...sigh.